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Birthday July 7, 1924

• The temperature on July 7, 1924 was between 9.0 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
  • February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
  • February 12 » George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
  • May 8 » The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
  • July 11 » Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on the Sunday.
  • October 27 » The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
  • November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1923 » Liviu Ciulei, Romanian actor, director, and screenwriter († 2011)
• 1923 » Whitney North Seymour Jr., American politician († 2019)
• 1924 » Eddie Romero, Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter († 2013)
• 1924 » Karim Olowu, Nigerian sprinter and long jumper († 2019)
• 1924 » Mary Ford, American singer and guitarist († 1977)
• 1924 » Natalia Bekhtereva, Russian neuroscientist and psychologist († 2008)